
“I don’t need to be motivated to write; it’s always there waiting to get out. Published or not.”
Write Now Interview (2020)
Source: Time Travelers Never Die (2009), Chapter 5 (p. 50)
“I don’t need to be motivated to write; it’s always there waiting to get out. Published or not.”
Write Now Interview (2020)
Senator Barack Obama’s speech to supporters after the Feb. 5 2018 nominating contests, as provided by Federal News Service and released in the New York Times (5 February 2008) https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/us/politics/05text-obama.html
2008
Campaign speech, quoted in "First Lady in Waiting" by Leslie Bennetts in Vanity Fair Web exclusive (27 December 2007) http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/12/michelle_obama200712
2000s
Context: I am desperate for change — now — not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now. We don’t have time to wait. We need big change — not just the shifting of power among insiders. We need to change the game, because the game is broken. When I think about the country I want to give my children, it’s not the world we have now. All I have to do is look into the faces of my children, and I realize how much work we need to do.
“Don’t wait for the perfect solution.”
“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.”
Bk. X, ch. 16
War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869)